Quotes by Simms, William Gilmore

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civiliz >>

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The >>

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we shoul >>

Quotations about Quotations

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used t >>

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal >>

I improve on misquotation. >>

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.

Simms, William Gilmore